Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.

When they have opened you up like a ripe fruit they devour your juices and then spit you out like the seed.

Theology is an attempt to hack god's mind and look at the universe as he does

every person must be good, but every person need to be an evil

If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will love that other in return.

I think with any characterization there's a point where you empathize, no matter how much of a deviance his or her actions may be from your understanding of humanity.

You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.

As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom.

A thought crossed his mind: How do you make poor people feel wealthy when wages are stagnant? You give them cheap loans.

A leader is an average, everyday person who is highly motivated.